A recent statement credited to Chief Tony Anenih has revealed Goodluck Jonathan is still owing him a huge some of money expended on election campaign activities during the general elections.
Chief Tony Anenih
Former chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih has revealed that the N260 million paid to him by the office of the former national security adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) was on the instruction of former president Goodluck Jonathan according to Sun News.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently probing the $2.1 billion arms contract scandal involving the ex-NSA boss, Sambo Dasuki.
The former NSA is alleged to have shared the money meant for the purchase of arms to fight insurgency to boost the reelection of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015 presidential election.
Some prominent PDP leaders and politicians including Anenih were named as beneficiaries of the money.
However, a source at the EFCC said that Anenih in his letter to the commission stated that the N260 million paid to him by the NSA’s office was a refund of part of the N440 million he expended to execute assignments at the request former president Jonathan.
Another source close to the ex-PDP BoT chair said the former president was yet to pay an outstanding N180 million owed to Anenih before he left office.
The EFCC source said Anenih in the letter claimed that though the refund of N260 million was made through the office of the former national security adviser, he did not give his account numbers to the NSA office. Instead, he stated that he only provided his account details to the former president on request for a refund of the money spent on the campaign.
The PDP BoT chairman stated in the letter that he was not in a position to ask Jonathan how he was going to source the fund or through which office the refund was going to be made.